Bernadette Bosky
A friend of mine, a published author and critic. She lives with Kevin Maroney and Arthur Hlavaty.

Crossover Technologies
My place of employment. Crossover produces computer games and multimedia, both traditional and Internet-based. I started out doing freelance beta-testing for Reinventing America, and wound up there fulltime doing (among other things) production on President '96, and have more recently been doing work dealing with financial websites.

CthulhuPunk
A role-playing game campaign that Lisa Padol ran from 1991 through 1999. The setting was a near-future combination of Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu and Stellar Games's Nightlife; the rules are R. Talsorian's CyberPunk 2.0.2.0, heavily mutated for greater flexibility and compatability with Call of Cthulhu. It'd been running since long before Steve Jackson Games publishedGURPS CthulhuPunk, and had nothing to do with that worldbook. Lisa may one day run a sequel game set some decades after the conclusion of the first one.

Fred Herman
A friend of mine, works at Baen Books.

Arthur Hlavaty
A friend of mine. Several-time Hugo award nominee for fan writing. He lives with Bernadette Bosky and Kevin Maroney.

Joshua Kronengold
A friend of mine, Lisa Padol's significant other.

Kevin Maroney
My evil twin. A friend of mine who still works at Crossover. He lives with Bernadette Bosky and Arthur Hlavaty.

New York
...City, of course. If I'd meant New York State, I would have said "New York State."

Mimi Noyes
An old friend and penpal of mine, and a maker of fabulous murals. Currently lives in Seattle.

Lisa Padol
Also know as "Madame CthulhuPunk." A friend of mine for over twenty years. She's written an essay about collaborative storytelling.

Chris Quiñones
My once-and-future ex-girlfriend. We started dating in 1990, moved in together in 1993, and split in July 1999, and now are sort of back together.